Archive for the 'SmugMug' Category

Square thumbs redux

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Sometimes we do the right thing in the wrong way. Many of you requested a square thumbs tool over the years. Unfortunately, we launched when it was a good bit less than perfect, and you were quick to call us on it. We should never have released ’square thumbs’ without providing an easy way [...]

Silkier and smoother, slideshow 2.0

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Slideshow: Captions are back! Many of you wrote in to let us know they were missed. We’re really sorry for any inconvenience, it was always our intention to include them with the new show, but we needed to release and debug v1.0 first. We heard your comments on slideshow thumbnails as well, you like them, [...]

Silky-smooth slideshow eye candy

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Huge thanks to our passionate customers who poured out their hearts about their dream slideshow: silky-smooth cross-dissolves, full screen, thumbnails, beautiful aesthetics and…speed, baby.
We thought we’d have to choose between speed, size and smoothness but after months of sweat we’re ready to call it awesome if you are. Click the slideshow button and [...]

A step back to move ahead…

Friday, February 29th, 2008

We’ve made an important change to the way Customizer’s JavaScript is loaded and handled: we put it back the way it was. We further tweaked it with the addition of a JavaScript ‘footer box.’ Nothing ventured nothing gained, we simply figured out a better way to increase performance. Moving JavaScript down to the footer box [...]

SmugMug goes Hollywood

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

We’ve done a good bit of tweaking this round, but on the excitement scale, none of it compares with our introduction into production. This week we roll out the first of our SmugMug How-To videos: The SmugMug Quick Start Guide. Designed to provide further insight into usage, navigation and customization, the SmugMug How-To videos will [...]

“The only good bug, is a dead bug!”

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Andrew Carnegie used to tell his children, “Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves.” As exciting as it is to release amazing new technology and features, the genius is in the details.
* Added a vital ‘Gotcha’ to the Galleries: Creating Help page .
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Migrate to SmugMug from Picasa Web

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Avast! SmuggLr will now grab yer photo booty from Picasa Web and haul it back to SmugMug to stash in our fine holds.
Join us on the good ship SmugMug and get 50% off your first year. Just be usin’ the coupon code: picasaweb when you sign up for SmugMug!

SmugKeys, Unlisted and ‘Lock it Down’

Friday, February 8th, 2008

We’ve implemented some important changes to the site to make our privacy options more powerful and easier to understand.
SmugMug gallery, image and video URLs are now appended with keys: an underscore and five alpha-numeric characters. So URLs now look like this: http://cmac.smugmug.com/gallery/2504559_f3ta9 (gallery url) and this http://cmac.smugmug.com/photos/131481399_ZnZmK-L.jpg (image url).
Where we used to call galleries [...]

SmugMungous Video “goes to eleven”

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

* Well, not really. But we do go to TEN now! The time cap for Pro account videos has been raised from 5 minutes to 10 minutes in DVD (640) quality. The 5 minute cap on HD remains in place, but you can upload HD up to ten minutes in length and we’ll convert it [...]

Increased Flexibility for a Stretchy Nation

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

* We have inserted a Javascript variable for Power and Pro ‘customizers’ who want more control over how ‘Stretchy’ pages are rendered. They can now override settings, add or subtract height, by adding the following code to their customizations: SM.SmugMug.config.alterScreenHeight = -100. Any +/- numeric will alter the configuration. Want [...]